Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-14
EARTH TO EARTH.
The Anarchists Funeral Procession
Winds its Way Through Chicago
Like a Monster Black Snake.
The Stsp.Bro:her Of Adolph Fischer
Arrested While Hsranguing
Crowd liz New York.
Fis!dsn and schWab FAN to Recognize
E.cp Other After Going Through the
Pruning Process at Joliet.
POLICE OUT IN FULL FORCE

POLICE OUT IN FULL FORCE.
CHICAGO, ILL Nov. 13.-The entire |
quad of the central detail of police were |
IN duty this morning at O'Clock. About
twenty OF the men had been On reserve |
ri night, and spent the day in the station |
instead Of being assigned TO positions on |
he line Of march At 1874 p. IN, short |
after word was received that the funer |
IL procession had started from
August Spies late home, Captain
hubbard called on the men to file
q ana assigned those who had not been
IN night duty to stations along the line OF
nsrch from Lake street TO the corner OF
Fifth avenue and Harrison street. Four
men were plsced at each street intersec-
ion. Orders were given to stay until the
crowd dispersed, and then to go home
sud report for duty at 3 p. m. ct the
Oesplsines street station.
THE oBsEQUIEs.
CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 13-FIitting mile
.fter mile In the gloom, close down to
sne cold earth five unseen souls figure,
deeing In death as from one great Being
Tor whom alone there can be no low
hiding place. Tonight in the darkness
vide expSnse five CHASTITY figures were
,sW. They were the FIVE dead anarchists,
Spiss, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and Lingg.
Probably half million people in the city
of this terrible crime saw the last pub
tic preparations for the final flight
Yer expected, seven thousand men and
q at In 4ho ri hu fnr,10ir,o
in procession behind them. Ten thousand
people were present in the bSrest, emp
lest grave yard adjacent to Chicago.
when the corpses were at lsst hidden nut
tered curses and bitter murmurs, and
cries of "Throttle the law" accompanied
THE PARTING WORDS
500 en- over the five Hfe!ess bodies. Il
was almost 20 the second the exact time
.lhnhfoTty-eight hours before the scsffold
fdr0p fell with august Spies and his com
radas, that to-daY she blacklist OF hesrses
1reY I'D at the door of his relatives.
More peculiar still was the fact that the
aearse IVES just ready to Start ct the pre-
else moment corresponding to the an
| aouEcement ST the gsllows that Spies had
ceased to breathe. This was the begin
ming OF the oosequ!es. NJ
| The scene is ct tie extreme northwest
ern corner of the city, and the route
taken resembles nothing so much as q
| black snska stretching 10 the center Oh
| Chicago, and protrudiGg out and beyond
the iurthest southwestern angle. The
| tines Of biacknese were formed OF human
beings Wedged together into almost s
single continuous whole. OF from
| Milwaukee avenue Spies lived in little
o4sis CT well-to-d0 Americans ard G r
mans, while the others entombed to-day
had places Of abode scattered at intervals
Of five or six blocks close to the same
th3r0Gghfare, bat IN the midst OF
THE MOST IGNORANT CLASSES
of Caicago's foreigu-oorn population
About 4O00 persons, most OF then
neighbors Of Spies, gathered on tint
street and sidewalk of the block in which
Spies lived when the time for the departure
came. As at the other houses where thu
anarchists bodies lSv, constsn
stream Of mourners and curious sight
seers had been since almost daylight
pouring through the buildings and Viewin!
the liyid remains or gazing at the weep,
! ing relatives. When the forty-eigh
hours anniversary of the scaftold drol
had come and the sombre hesrse VIZ
!, standing patient at the curb, the tsi
| stately form of Captain Black, the anarch
lists chief counsel, was seen stepping on
through the throng at the Spies threshold
Supported On his arm and with her heat
pillowed on his shoulder was clinging
A GIRLIsH FIGURE
clad in crepe from head to foot. Tn
: picture of the little face was Veiie
from sight. Instantly the whisper wa
heard on every side: "There she is
there's Nina Van Zandt; that's Spies
wife!"
+ Il was not till the cof1i I had been place
! inside the hearse, the mourners he'd er
tered the carriages, and 500 blue-5adge'
: Turner's had formed in the ranks ahesc
, that the crowd discovered it's mistake
2 Calmly seated in the first Carrisge, viii
out one eign Of mourning in her sppesr
, apce or trnce of grief in her pal:
, set face, was Nina Van Zandt.
] The most striking view Of the process
g sion to-day was obtained st the corner c
e Lake and Desplaines streets, because
!, brought so vividly 10 mind the scenes {
& May, 1885, when the bomb was thrown
!. It IVES just 40 p. m. when the head (
e the line reached the spot ct the cornt
s saloon and hall of Charles Hept, the a.
: archist. It was to this saloon that Pa
q SONS took his wife and children after
Il had finished his speech at the Hsymarke
8 and there they sat when
TIE BONE WAS THROWN.
Two hundred and ftty feet south
the corner stood the wagon from whit
Spies end his comrades spoke and cou
seled the throttlIng of the law, and her
l. too, was the alley from which the hissil
d bomb wss hurled into the ranks Of q
a police. a little further south is the sp
" where the bomb fell and did such awf
j. destruction. Was it by sccldentor desil
,t that the parade wound around the histoi
rs corner? was the question asked by hui
,e dreds. The line of march took the arr
Is OF sympathizsrs directly past Crafts ha
in the basement of which group
"Reds" used TO hold nightly conferenc
and instruct each other in the use
n dynamite and prsctiee the msnual of arm
st At the hour mentioned line Of N
Id could be seen crossing the Despiain
street Tladuct where, il 1873, the bloc